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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Apr-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name MT. SEPTIMUS, BIG INTERIOR MOUNTAIN Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F043
Status Showing NTS Map 092F05E
Latitude 049º 28' 51'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 31' 32'' Northing 5483976
Easting 317068
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

A mass of light grey to white, recrystallized limestone of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Azure Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group) outcrops over a 280 by 350 metre area on the west slope of Mount Septimus, at the southern end of the Buttle Lake uplift. The limestone is underlain to the southwest by volcanic breccia, tuff and argillite of the Paleozoic Sicker Group and is overlain to the northeast by pillowed basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Forma- tion (Vancouver Group). Refer to the H-W deposit (092F 330) for a discussion of the revised nomenclature of the Buttle Lake uplift stratigraphy.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL *13, pp. 17-21
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by J.W. McCammon, 1973, p. 11 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 17-1968
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50, p. 8; 79-30, p. 18
GSC SUM RPT 1930A, pp. 59,60
PERS COMM Massey, Nick, Feb. 1990
Juras, S.S. (1987): Geology of the Polymetallic Volcanogenic Buttle Lake Camp, with Emphasis on the Price Hillside, Central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia

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